The now common adage "what you resist, persists" is a deep and important truth. This talk explores the often...

This four week series reviews many key components of Buddhist meditation practice. Beginning with intention and attitude, we cover...

This four week series reviews many key components of Buddhist meditation practice. Beginning with intention and attitude, we cover...

This four week series reviews many key components of Buddhist meditation practice. Beginning with intention and attitude, we cover...

This four week series reviews many key components of Buddhist meditation practice. Beginning with intention and attitude, we cover...

Thoughts, and more broadly, conceptual knowledge, cannot lead to the direct realization of truth, of reality. While thoughts are...

Our conditioning is to conclude that "something is wrong" when we encounter difficulty. This way of relating to experience...

Vesak is the Buddhist holiday that celebrates the Buddha's birth, enlightment and death. What links these events is the...

There are three spiritual capacities that are essential for our freedom. The first, forgiveness, is the releasing of stories...

An evening of questions and responses with Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield

(This talk given at the IMCW Spring Retreat at Sevenoaks, VA.) We live in the story of being a separate...

This talk focuses on the use of inquiry and investigation in energizing a lucid, mindful presence. The interest and...

While we can't change the past, it is our intention in this present moment that determines the unfolding of...

While we can't change the past, it is our intention in this present moment that determines the unfolding of...

This talk reflects on ways that we can attend to nature--our inner body, the natural world and our relatedness...

The wisdom of the Buddha can guide us not only in discovering inner freedom, but in healing that which...

We have strong conditioning to take false refuge in our mind, and disconnect from our senses. These two talks...

We have strong conditioning to take false refuge in our mind, and disconnect from our senses. These two talks...

The nature of being human is that we get caught in anger and judgment, hurt and fear. This talk...

Lovingkindness, compassion, joy and equinimity, are natural expressions of our awakened heart. In this series of four talks, we...